The book · by Jarrod Carman

Drop In

Finding your line

We don't go to the mountain to escape life. We go to remember how to live it.

Thirty years of mountain stories, and the psychology hiding inside each one. Commitment, focus, flow, ego and letting go, learned the hard way on snow and brought back down to the rest of your life.

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Inside the book

Nine chapters.
Nine lessons.

Every chapter starts with a real story from the mountain, then unpacks the science of what was really going on.

01
Drop InThe psychology of commitment
02
Find your lineThe reticular activating system and where you look
03
Read the terrainConfirmation bias and the stories we tell ourselves
04
Flow stateThe neuroscience of being fully alive
05
The weight of speedWhy fast means missing everything
06
Powder days and presenceThe neuroscience of now
07
The ego and the mountainWhat gets left behind when the mountain strips everything away
08
Shared linesWhy the mountain builds the deepest friendships
09
The season always endsLearning to love impermanence

From Chapter 1

Half commitment is just a slower way to fall.

Years of boardercross taught Jarrod that natural talent means nothing if you pull back at the finish line. Chapter 1 is about that moment at the top of the drop, and choosing to go anyway.

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"Drop In: The Psychology of Commitment." Fear, the space between stimulus and response, and why the fear never fully goes away. You drop in anyway.

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